Extension-table.



PATENTED NOV..13, 1906.

J. G. HOLMl EXTENSION TABLE..

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 22, 1905.

-NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.TENS CR. HOLM, OF CAPE SCOTT, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA. EXTENSION-TABLE..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13,1906.

T0 @ZZ ilu/wml t may concern:

Be it known that I, JENs CR. HOLM, a subject of the King of England, residing at Cape Scott, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extension-Tables, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which` Figure 1 is a vertical elevation, shown partly in section, of an extension-table embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary under-side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken through of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view drawn to a somewhat larger scale.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved extension-table which is of neat appearance, inexpensive in construction, and which is capable of being more conveniently adjusted to a desired length and to a iiner degree than is possible with any other table known to me.

With these and other ends in view my invention consists in the novel construction, adaptation, and combination of parts, as will be more fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings the reference-numeral 2 designates a rectangular piece forming a portion of the table-top and is suitably supported by a leg or legs, such as indicated by 3.

F ixedly secured to the under side of this top portion are longitudinal bars 4 and 4', which are-provided in their exterior opposite edges with rabbets 5, which respectively register with and provide guideways for the reverselydisposed tongues 6 of slidable bars 7 and 7 of the adjustably-movable end frames of the table. These frames also each include two horizontal transversely-arranged bars 8 and 9, which are rigidly connected in their respective ends by looped metal separating and supporting straps 10, while the lower bars 9 are sustained upon legs 11. The outer ends 7 of said slidable bars are made rounding, and the respective said tongues are continued thereabout and thence along their under sides, as at 6, toward the middle of the table. A group of slats 12 of uniform lengths equal to the width of the table is connected to each end of said top portion 2 and with each other within the respective groups by a series of pivotally-connected links or hinge elements 13, disposed adjacent of each sidel of the table, thus forming flexible prolongations to the said top portion. Said slats are severally attached to reinforcingstrips 14, having beveled side faces and provided at their ends with notches to furnishtongues 14 and shoulders 14, which respectively overlap and abut against the ton ues 6v of the aforesaid slidable bars to gui e the various slats and maintain them in their ad justed positions, as will be presently explained.

To afford a housing for the ends of the bars 8 and likewise to improve the appearance of the structure, covering-pieces 15 are desirably provided at the sides of the end frames: and are utilized for supporting the bracketarms 16 of terminal pieces 17. These pieces are of the same lengths as said slats, and the arms thereof are pivotally connected, as at 18, intermediate their lengths to the pieces 15 and are provided with slots, such as 19, through which project guide-pins, as 20, for the purpose of allowing such terminal pieces being tilted up to a limited extent while adjustably changing the table length. To prevent the withdrawing of the slidable bars from the said longitudinal bars 4 or 4', which are fast to the top portion 2, stopcleats 21 are provided upon the former to impinge against interfering pins or studs 21 of the staty onary bars.

To distend the table, the terminal piece 17 of the table end about to be drawn out is iirst raised and a horizontal pull is exerted thereupon, causing such end to be separated from the mid-portion of the table, whereupon the iexible top, which is connected to the latter, is drawn from underneath the slidable bars, as shown at the right-hand side of Fig. 1, to a position thereabove, as indicated at the other end of the view. In being thus transposed the tongues in the ends of the said reinforcing-strips restrain the slats to move about the rounded ends of these bars and to maintain the slats in their new position in the same plane with the said middle or stationary portion of the table-top. It is obvious that but a part of the slats at either end need be employed in effecting an extension to or reduction in the length of a table to occupy larger or smaller compass, and to allow the terminal pieces 17 being positioned in thesame plane with the iixed or adjustable portions of the top their inner edges are undercut, as at 17 and a gap-closer 17 attached to the same.

Having described the invention, what I IOO IIO

pieces and piyotally secured intermediate their ends to the covering-pieces, said brackets being formed with slots and pins carried 15 by the coveringpieces and projecting through the slots in the brackets.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence oi two witnesses.

vJENS oR. HoLM.

claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An extension-table comprising a middle portion, two end frames slidably connected with said middle portion, said frames being each provided with a flexible top adapted to l automatically move from above the respective frames to below the same when the table is reduced to a smaller compass, coveringpieces carried by the sides oi said end frames, adjacent the edges of the flexible top, terminal pieces, brackets attached to said terminal Witnesses PIERRE. BARNES, Nrs SGHULTZ. 

